Pharmageddon - David Healy

This Searing Indictment, David Healy's Most Comprehensive And Forceful Argument Against The Pharmaceuticalization Of Medicine, Tackles Problems In Health Care That Are Leading To A Growing Number Of Deaths And Disabilities. Healy, Who Was The First To Draw Attention To The Now Well-publicized Suicide-inducing Side Effects Of Many Anti-depressants, Attributes Our Current State Of Affairs To Three Key Factors: Product Rather Than Process Patents On Drugs, The Classification Of Certain Drugs As Prescription-only, And Industry-controlled Drug Trials. These Developments Have Tied The Survival Of Pharmaceutical Companies To The Development Of Blockbuster Drugs, So That They Must Overhype Benefits And Deny Real Hazards.